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Hi Mark, I really love your site but majorly disagreed with your post over at Fitness Black Book (which is how I originally found this place). I’ve commented downthread, I’m really hoping either you or Rusty respond as your contention that 150 grams of protein daily is required for optimum health seems to contradict a lot of Rusty’s thinking about protein intake which pretty much undercuts your whole post.

Alvaro, you asked about the high amount of protein I espouse. Great question. The idea in a low carb diet is to get plenty of healthy veggies and fruits as the main source of carb/glucose. Then, be sure to cover your basic needs for protein (which is, admittedly, far less than I espouse). But the difference is that we use the extra protein as an additional source of needed calories (when you cut carbs, you cut energy) and as a reserve source of glucose (especially when you cut carbs to under 100 grams a day, as I do some days. We still get most of our energy from fat, but the body can convert the extra protein to glucose through gluconeogenesis (burning fat to do so) without having to resort to tearing down hard-earned muscle tissue as happens frequently in, say, endurance training.

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